SCons comes pre-packaged for installation on a number of systems,
including Linux and Windows systems.
You do not need to read this entire section,
you should only need to read the section
appropriate to the type of system you're running on.

SCons comes in RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) format,
pre-built and ready to install on Red Hat Linux,
Fedora Core,
or any other Linux distribution that uses RPM.
Your distribution may
already have an SCons RPM built specifically for it;
many do, including SuSe, Mandrake and Fedora.
You can check for the availability of an SCons RPM
on your distribution's download servers,
or by consulting an RPM search site like
http://www.rpmfind.net/ or
http://rpm.pbone.net/.

If your Linux distribution does not already have
a specific SCons RPM file,
you can download and install from the
generic RPM provided by the SCons project.
This will install the
SCons script(s) in /usr/bin,
and the SCons library modules in
/usr/lib/scons.

To install from the command line, simply download the
appropriate .rpm file,
and then run:

# rpm -Uvh scons-0.96-1.noarch.rpm

Or, you can use a graphical RPM package manager
like gnorpm.
See your package manager application's documention
for specific instructions about
how to use it to install a downloaded RPM.

SCons provides a Windows installer
that makes installation extremely easy.
Download the scons-0.95.win32.exe
file from the SCons download page at
http://www.scons.org/download.html.
Then all you need to do is execute the file
(usually by clicking on its icon in Windows Explorer).
These will take you through a small
sequence of windows that will install
SCons on your system.